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It's true, I read Hacker News on my TV.
TV means the media that is broadcast or streamed on TV. Not the display device that you use to read on internet or what you do on your computer.
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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings
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As mentioned elsewhere: no problem with youtube videos (even with hard accents like scottish) but a world of pain for tv shows and movies. On the same TV. Oh, and the youtube videos don't have the infamous mixing issues of "voices too low, explosions too high". It's the source material, not the device. Stop accusing TV speakers, they are ok-tier.
So what about older films? Can you understand Die Hard on the same set? What about Lord of the Rings ? That would help to determine whether it's newer films or your newer speakers that are the problem since millions of people have enjoyed those films with no problems.
Replying late, but yes, I have less trouble with older films. It is a mix of more articulate acting (worse on-set mics so actors spoke rather than mutter), and less over-the-top mixing.
For current movies, some of the most legible are "children" oriented movies: I watched the Dragons set and it was trouble-free.
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#803Can anyone explain why my Samsung s95b oled TV film maker mode is so dark? I'm a parent with young kids and I just do not have time to delve into all the settings. I've managed to stop films looking like soap operas but I'm not sure exactly what I've adjusted. Also, if I'm watching from my pc on the same TV using VLC player is it a mistake just to leave the TV on "game mode" ? This seems to work fine, but I've no ide…
What TV model do you have? I just tried Filmmaker mode on my Samsung S95B and, like you, I find it very dark. Another flaw of this TV is that if the edges of the screen darken (like the borders in widescreen movies), the entire panel goes dark.
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I didn't know about the other bug. I wonder if that is actually what I'm seeing rather than the dark room thing I'm talking about.
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#804I can’t imagine releasing an app and then shaming my users into tweaking about:config
Ross Duffer doesn't build TV sets.
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#805As thought its the only think stopping it to make a great tv show :sigh:
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Real high framerate is one thing, but the TV setting is faking it with interpolation. There's not really a good reason to do this, it's trickery to deceive you. Recording a video at 60fps is fine, but that's just not what TV and movies do in reality. No one is telling you to watch something at half the intended framerate, just the actual framerate.
In principle, I agree with you. I would vastly prefer original material at high frame rates instead of interpolation. But I remember the backslash against “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” because it was filmed at 48 Hz, and that makes me think that people dislike high frame rate content no matter the source, so my comment also covers these cases. Also, because of that public response, we don't have more content ac…
I don't have strong feelings on 48fps video as I haven't been exposed to it much, if at all (I kind of just ignore LotR and Star Wars and figure I missed the boat on them at this point), but I will say I have watched and recorded 60fps YouTube videos and I am not bothered by them at all. Maybe something in between 24 and 60 would feel a bit "off" to me, but I'd at least be in favor of stuff going to 60, I think.
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"Filmmaker mode" is the industry's attempt at this. On supported TVs it's just another picture mode (like vivid or standard), but it disables all the junk the other modes have enabled by default without wading though all the individual settings. I don't know how widely adopted it is though, but my LG OLED from 2020 has it.
On my Samsung film mode has an insane amount of processing. Game Mode is the setting where the display is most true to what's being sent to it.
On my Samsung OLED game mode has an annoying effect that turns (nearly) copletely black screens into gray smudge garbage that you can only turn down but not completely off, making that mode entirely useless.
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Sometimes PC mode reduces image quality (like lowering bit depth) at the expense of lower input lag
Is there a way to verify this other than breaking out a colorimeter (which I happen to have)?
For bit depth issues, displaying a test pattern is probably the best test.
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You know when something doesn't annoy you until someone points it out? It's so obvious in hindsight. Shows like the Big Bang theory, House and Scrubs I very rarely caught two episodes consecutively (and when I did they were on some release schedule so you'd forgotten half of the plot by next week). But they are all practically self contained with only the thread of a longer term narrative being woven between them. It…
This is something that always irked me about those old shows. Even kids ones when I was still a child. Absolutely zero story progression, nothing that happens matter.
Weird, that's exactly why I prefer Star Trek TOS and TNG over the later series. They are collections of self-contained short stories rather than an endless series of cliff hangers and hot air trying to get you to come back for the next episode.
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This used to irk me too. And I liked the epic stories that really became mainstream in the 2010s. But the problem is, nowadays the progression in each episode has become minuscule. It’s not an epic told in 15 stories, it’s just one story drawn out in 15 chapters. It’s often just a bridge from one cliffhanger to the next. For example most of new the Star Trek stuff, none of the episodes stand by themselves. They don’t…
I agree, but when rewatching older Trek shows it is also a bit infuriating how nothing really has an impact. Last season of TNG they introduced the fact that warp was damaging subspace. That fact was forgotten just a few episodes later. I think Strange New Worlds walks that balancing act particularly well though. A lot of episodes are their own adventure but you do have character development and an overarching story…
Many things that episode writers come up with are better forgotten though.